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I sometimes like to make simple, big, one-pot meals that just rely on increments of tablespoons for spices and cups for lentils/rice/etc.

Been so long since I’ve seen this meme format

One thing Graeber brings up is that there’s a lot of less bullshit work that is service of bullshit jobs. If we could drastically reduce working hours and shut down a lot of the useless administration, tech, and finance work, how much commercial janitorial work could we free up?

Yes, but hardly anyone actually has it in powder form, so I’m 99% sure law enforcement would be counting the weight of the paper blotter if they’re hoping to screw someone over. They certainly have done that with cannabis - not just the nugs but any paraphernalia or full brownies will be put on the scale and they’ll be charged with pounds of weed or whatever.

There is already massive tension between department faculty and admins at many universities

It reminds me of one of Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs/Utopia of Rules points that many of our actually useful public institutions (within the realm of education, healthcare, etc.) have become bloated with class middlemen - a vertically swelling stack of bureaucratic administrators that manage the tension between owners and labourers with increasingly technical systems of means testing and whatever else. These people have a distinct class position from actual educators, so even though professors can be all over the place ideologically depending on their department, it’s really not a huge surprise to me that the sociology folks are on the right side of history here.

This is a bit tangential, but a part of me is pleased that leftists and Marxists are adopting some of these basic chartalist monetary principles. When I dove into the MMT world for a brief period a few years ago, my basic takeaway was that their analysis of the state and money isn’t far off the mark, but they have a severely underdeveloped class consciousness. The end call to action - at least from the liberal voices within that ideological space - was always “well if we educate people about all this, then they can go harder, and we can finally have funding for healthcare and education”

Only because they sell bonds to make up the deficit. They don’t have to do that.

The Mission, though I haven’t seen the movie yet.

Hmmm, I’d like to see Craig’s list.

KDE Plasma on Arch on integrated Intel graphics here. I’ve been on it for a few years and I love it.

Ads in my notifications and my lock screen.

It also breaks down to CO2 after, right? A small amount but still.

Considering there’s a couple anti-anarchist comments in here, I’d like to call out a line I see too often insinuated if not said explicitly by the non-anarchist left; that there’s no left in the West, no party organization of any kind, no hope for one, and the best we can do is anti-imperialist posting since geopolitical tension between AES states and the imperial core is the only real front anyway.

IMO while it’s crucial to reject anti-China propaganda, one community member bringing coffee and snacks to a picket line is worth a hundred Zenz debunks on hexbear dot net. I’ve become a bit frustrated with this side of the left because it moves the conversation to a space where it’s nearly impossible to follow it up with action or organize locally around the issues being discussed.

Which heroes are anarchists?

I find I have that issue in Windows 10. There’s not much consistency between applications in terms of which monitor or even desktop they’ll launch in when I open them.

Not really a hilarious assumption, but it was only this year that I actually learned anything more than the names of a few STIs. It’s good to familiarize yourself with the risk profiles and treatment options of the common ones, and get tested regularly if you’re sexually active.

My responses to that are:

1. What counts as arable? Can you grow literally nothing on it, or is it just unusable for mass industrial mono-cropping at a scale that competes?

2. IIRC even if ruminant grazing is the most efficient way to produce food on this land, it’s still be a severe environmental net negative as opposed to other non-food uses, namely rewilding. Of course this is true for cash crops as well, and I don’t know how the payoff compares, but a lot of animal agriculture defenders like to use this argument to imply that grazers can just be slotted in on the margins with no downside.

3. Based on the map in the article, a substantial portion of land still goes to farmed livestock feed. Eliminate all of that first and then we can actually see how much of this beef is purely ranched.

Meat eaters do love to champion the most ethical and environmental corners of their supply chain, and I appreciate that, but everyone I know that buys a half cow for their deep freezer from a sustainable local farmer refuses to draw the hard line in the fast food drive-thru. “Conscious” meat exists to justify all meat consumption rather than replace it in the supply chain, from my experience growing up on a small hobby farm trying to produce it.

Thank god I am terrified of spending money. I impulsively do really stupid shit all the time but my fucked relationship with finance and value keeps the frivolous shopping at bay.

It’s incredibly hot in my region for this time of year; basically summer temperatures in October. It’s a bit trippy when the leaves are all changing or fallen and I can’t split wood without pouring sweat and overheating after ten minutes.

You know exactly what that picture is, and it’s how I prefer to hang my toilet paper rolls because I’m in the small minority that finds it more aesthetically pleasing.